leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings like this cht . it is now just 14 hours from when all eyes shifted to the tragedy in aurora, colorado. one of the deadliest mass shootings in u.s. history. the details remain influx, but here s the latest this hour. 71 shot. 12 died. the rest were injured. now, the tragic shooting in colorado has stunned the nation an the political world today. it happened just after the start of a midnight premier of the new bat man movie, the dark knight rises. a heavily armed gunman bursting into the theatre through an exit door and here s how witnesses describe what happened next. he threw one gas like, one tear gas thing. landed in the road. hit the girl right in front of us. then it exploded. then he threw another one. i think that went to the right of us. and did you see him starting to shoot people at that point? he waited, he looked like, he looked so calm when he did it. it was scary. he waited for the bombs both to
he was wearing a ballistic helmet, a tactical ballistic vest, ballistic leggings, a throat protector and groin protector and a gas mask. and at this hour, police are working to disharm holmes aurora apartment. they ve been working hard all day, which they say is boby trapped in an elaborate fashion. we are trying to determine how to disarm the flammable or explosive material that s in there, so that s why we re here. we could be here for hours or days. the pictures are pretty disturbing. looks pretty sophisticated. the tragedy pushed politics aside today as both the president and his rival, mitt romney, scrubbed campaign events and pulled political ads from colorado s air waves sh speaking instead to a moment of wrunity d great sadness. if there s anything to take away from this tragedy, it s the reminder that life is very fragile. our time here is limited and it is precious. and what matters at the end of the day is not the small things. it s not the trivial things,